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Stories of how your support is making a difference for nature and people in Papua New Guinea.

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Crossing Kimbe Bay in a small boat; West New Britain provence, Papua New Guinea. This area is one of the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) which The Nature Conservancy helped design to protect the biodiversity of the bay. © Mark Godfrey

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Farmers from the Urumarov village hold up the fruits of their labor. © Allison Bleaney

Sweet Success

The Adelberts Conservation Cooperative Society, established with help from the Conservancy in Madang Province, has rallied local farmers around conservation. Now, they're producing the first fair trade-certified cocoa in the country and reaping livelihood benefits from their commitment to sustainability.

Annisah Sapul, a community conservation specialist with the Conservancy's Kimbe Bay project in Papua New Guinea. © TNC

Meet Annisah

Annisah Sapul came to Kimbe Bay as a Conservancy intern. Now, she's turned a short-term learning experience into a life's passion.

Pere net fishing, Papua New Guinea © Simon Foale

Hope for Fish and Tribal Communities

With global fish supplies crashing, The Nature Conservancy is racing to help communities around the world protect the oceans’ nurseries — coral reefs. In remote Pere village on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea we find a story of precarious hope.

Villagers do a traditional singsing welcoming visitors from The Nature Conservancy to the village of Turutapa located in the Adelbert Mountain Range of Papua New Guinea's Madang Province. © Mark Godfrey

Water for Conservation

The Conservancy is helping communities in Papua New Guinea obtain rainwater collection tanks and helping them develop land use and management plans that conserve large areas of land.

Manawan Pokakes © TNC

Stories from Pere

Ponawan Pokakes tells of the traditional ways of the Titan tribe and Manuai Matawan a Nature Conservancy Community Conservation Coordinator and native of Pere village talk about why spawning reefs are so special.

Local villagers catch a Tuna (using a simple single hook hand-line) while floating in the middle of a large school of Tuna feeding on the surface of Kimbe Bay, West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. © Mark Godfrey

Protecting the World's Center of Marine Biodiversity

In the heart of the Coral Triangle — which supports 76 percent of the world’s coral species — the Conservancy has helped design the first network of marine protected areas designed to help corals withstand the deadly pressures of climate change.

Reforming Forestry, From the Ground to the Canopy

Forest planner, Suryadi Mentemas tags trees at the number four concession logging area in the Kalimantan region of Borneo, Indonesia where the logging company he works for has been given permit to proceed with reduced impact logging (RIL). © Bridget Besaw

Branching Out: Creating New Solutions for Asia-Pacific’s Forests

RAFT is working at all levels — from tree-cutting to helping craft the laws that regulate the timber trade — to make Asia-Pacific forestry more sustainable and responsible.